Grimm Tales Made Gay | Page 4

He would trust her
With his keys,
Remarking to her prayerfully:?"I beg you'll use them carefully.?Don't look what I deposit
In that closet,
If you please."
It may be mentioned, casually,?That blue as lapis lazuli?He dyed his hair, his lashes,
His mustaches,
And his beard.
And, just because he did it, he?Aroused his wife's timidity:?Her terror she dissembled,
But she trembled
When he neared.
[Illustration: _This shows how grim Blue-Beard, when bound on a bat,
Instructed his wife on the key of a flat!_]
This feeling insalubrious?Soon made her most lugubrious,?And bitterly she missed her
Elder sister
Marie Anne:
She asked if she might write her to?Come down and spend a night or two,?Her husband answered rightly
And politely:
"Yes, you can!"

Blue-Beard, the Monday following,
His jealous feeling swallowing,
Packed all his clothes together
In a leather-
Bound valise,
And, feigning reprehensibly,
He started out, ostensibly
By traveling to learn a
Bit of Smyrna
And of Greece.
His wife made but a cursory?Inspection of the nursery;?The kitchen and the airy
Little dairy